According to DigiTimes, AMD has no less than seven new chips coming out in March. Five are quad-core Phenoms and the other two are extensions to the Black Edition lime up. Triple cores should be arriving by April, and there are likely more models that we will see in the near future.

If you somehow missed the interview Ryan posted yesterday, click over and read it or we will take your FPS license away. John Carmack, who is responsible for designing of the original mainstream FPS and is arguably the reason we all need to buy graphics cards spoke with Ryan about ray tracing and the future of graphics. They cover a lot of ground, and Ryan has picked up a lot of information about the future of graphics at id.

The Audiotrak Maya EX5 CE External 5.1 USB Surround Audio Solution seems odd at first, an external USB device built of see through plastic that can provide up to 7.1 channels of sound. It is all software controlled, which does mean there are less things to break on the device, but also makes it seem very plain. Digit Life has all the specs on this device, see if it sounds like something you could use.

Hulu, which has been in beta for a while, is now available to the public. Currently it only works for the USA, but even with that limit, the ability to watch streaming movies and TV over the net is rather nice; they've even got some HD content. They've made it very similar to watching TV, as you can expect commercial interruptions during your viewing. Give it a try, you may find that the service they offer is free enough for you to enjoy using it.

Perhaps if the developers of TimeShift had access to the suit that appears in their game, they could have had enough time to make improvements, or even go back to the beginning of the programming and redesign it completely. Gamepyre played the game, and found it to be mediocre, although certainly not bad. The problem for them lay in the time suit and how it was included, as well as some other niggling issues. It is only $30 to pick up, so perhaps the bar shouldn't be too high.

The only good news is it takes a team of experts and more than $30,000 worth of lab equipment a lot of effort to manage it, so there is little chance that a script-kiddy could download plans to modify a universal remote and do this themselves.

If you are Razer it is all about building a better mouse pad. The Destructor is their newest, and it has "Fractal textured surface". Find out what that is, and if it works or not, over at Hardware Zone.

Particularly the City of Nanaimo, which has become the world's most Google-able place. With a little help from Google Earth you can take a virtual tour of the downtown and harbour, there are listings of the businesses and even some physical information about features in the city. Find out more about what was done, and how to take a tour, on Slashdot.

... and here some people were upset that Google took a picture of their cat.